A self-portrait of an admirable plantation mistress spanning a period from antebellum days until World War I.

The story of the African American struggle for freedom.

Confederates faced with the deprivation of the Civil War.

In a book that has served as a standard source for more than three generations of Civil War scholars, Albert Burton Moore uses conscription to illustrate a central paradox of the Confederacy-in order to protect its commitment to states rights, the Confederacy was forced to adopt tactics of centralized government. He examines the system's daily operations, troublesome substitution and exemption procedures, and ultimate collapse. Although he credits Confederate conscription with a high degree of success, he blames it for causing dissension between state and national officials and for creating...

This look at the Confederate experience of soldiers, African Americans, and women sparked a debate about the reasons for southern defeat when it was first published in 1944. It challenges southern myths about a contented and loyal slave population, and questions popular morale.

The indispensable anthology of poetry from the Fugitive group, this collection chronicles the impact of literary modernism on these Southern poets as their region took a backward glance before coming to terms with the modern world. Southern Classics Series.

In this vivid portrait of one of the South's ablest (and most enigmatic) commanders, Allen Tate portrays the warrior whom Lee would mourn as his right arm. Southern Classics Series.

Nineteen tales from an early collection of Southern humor, first published in newspapers in the 1830s, portray the clash between rural and village life and between ordinary people and genteel society.